{"id":203,"date":"2009-01-07T19:21:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T00:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/?p=203"},"modified":"2009-01-18T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T00:32:10","slug":"a-quantity-of-the-coffee-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"a quantity of the Coffee Cocktail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was introduced to the Coffee Cocktail at an Oregon Bartenders&#8217; Guild event last April. David Wonderich, the author of a biography-cum-cocktail book on the pioneering 18th Century bartender Jerry Thomas, presented stories from that book with drinks. One of these was a brandy, port, and egg cocktail that I found delicious. Called the Coffee Cocktail for its color, but it has no coffee at all. Actually it is an opaque brown-purple color, and noticeably thick. It is similar to eggnog in mouthfeel and tastes of raisins.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI multiplied the recipe that David Wonderich gave in his book, <u>Imbibe!<\/u>, to party quantities (about a third of a gallon), making a couple adjustments. I pulled back on the number of eggs, though, assuming that a modern large egg would be larger than a hen&#8217;s egg from 140 years ago. And I added water and milk to account for the dilution resulting from shaking the original drink.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coffee Cocktail, in quantity (about 10-12 servings)<br \/>\nBeat 6 whole eggs with 10tsp sugar, then<br \/>\nadd 10oz brandy.<br \/>\nBlend in, then<br \/>\nadd 10oz tawny port,<br \/>\nadd 10oz ruby port,<br \/>\nadd 5oz water, and<br \/>\nadd 3oz whole milk.<br \/>\nChill for one hour.<br \/>\nLadle into glasses, and<br \/>\ngarnish with ground cardamon.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a really tasty cocktail for cold and windy weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was introduced to the Coffee Cocktail at an Oregon Bartenders&#8217; Guild event last April. David Wonderich, the author of a biography-cum-cocktail book on the pioneering 18th Century bartender Jerry Thomas, presented stories from that book with drinks. One of these was a brandy, port, and egg cocktail that I found delicious. Called the Coffee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixed-drinks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}